RiR Apps

Dashboard Cast is a personalized homescreenfor Chromecast. Create and organise widgets to your liking anddisplay them on your TV. This app requires a Chromecast or a Castenabled device to work.---- This app is developed on my free time, I do what I can to makethis app work and bring new features. To help support thedevelopment of Dashboard Cast, you can make a donation from the app----You can now create alarms to automatically trigger casting of yourdashboard to your TV.Widgets available :- Clock and date- Weather: get current and future weather forecasts- RSS: view RSS or ATOM feeds on your TV- Calendar: read your phone's calendar and display it on yourTV- Stock: select from a list of stock quotes- Audio : play audio streams or podcasts (beta). Select a podcastfrom the app, or enter a url to an audio file or stream or playlistand listen to it on your chromecast. Supported audio file andplaylist formats : mpeg (mp3, mp4, etc), .ogg, .pls, .xpsf,.m3u.- Map: Weather layer or traffic map with directionsinformationFeatures available :- Choose your own backgrounds to display behind your widgets(beta)- Customize the look of your widgetsMore widgets and more personalization options coming in futureversions.Upcoming widgets and features :- Note widget- Picture slideshow widget- Facebook and other social media integration- Email widget- Integration with other audio services (Google Music andothers)- Device notifications widget- Better widget position, options and size control- Additional interaction with widgets on Chromecast from yourdeviceWant to suggest features to add to Dashboard Cast? Select thecontact option in the app or send an email [email protected] Dashboard Cast widgets are still considered experimental. Ifthere are any problems or issues, use the in-app contact button orsend an email to [email protected] you wish to help translate the app, send an email [email protected] with the language you wish to translateinto.Permissions :- Read phone state : Needed to display advertisement.- Approximate location : the weather widget has an option to useyour current location to get weather data. The permission is neededto access the city you are in to display proper weather data.- Read calendar events : the calendar widget needs this permissionto send your upcoming events to Chromecast. If you do not have acalendar widget set up, the application does not look at yourcalendar data.- Google Play billing service : necessary to make in-app donationsto remove ads.- Prevent phone from sleeping : if the phone sleeps while connectedto the Chromecast, the connection is interrupted. Therefore theapplication needs to prevent the CPU from going to sleep in orderto keep the connection open.- Receive device boot completed : needed to schedule alarms whenthe device is powered on.- Access and change wifi state : allows Dashboard Cast toautomatically turn on wifi without going into the devicesettings.